well from things I have made, making an offline game engine is easy (at lest for me)...

just the online junk is more confusing because you have to orginize everything and send a ton of data through the server...

and files and stuff, it just gets all hectic...

It's about the little things
For a game like Graal (offline mode only)
you would need to code:
- reading images (gifs, pngs, mngs)
- drawing images (DirectX)
- drawing light effects
- switching between fullscreen/window mode
- playing sound and music
- joystick support
- sharing of images for different objects
- level files + level editor + level generator
- animation files + editor
- npc script parsing
- script commands
- script debugger
- configuration panels
The basic Graal offline stuff has been made
on one single day, so you can imagine that
it could possible be done in a few months
if good programmers work on it.

For online mode:
- server which stores accounts, sends it to the
player at login, saves it all few minutes, sends
data between players
- client-side network code
- special player interaction stuff like
PMs, chatting, profiles, guilds
- data compression and encryption
- automatically downloading updated levels
and graphics
- npcserver which controls dynamic obects in the
game
- tools for administration
- website tools for account creation
- configuring the server machine,
which includes making it unhackable
and updating it all few days to prevent future
hacks; also the machine needs to improved
in speed, meaning testing and installing
different libraries and kernels etc.

I forgot the community and money stuff:
you will see that you need to change the
server often because its expensive,
and people are leaving the project or
trying to destroy it or just needed to
be motivated or trying to demotivate you

I never actually said that I'd work on the project.

When did I say you were? I said we were talking about it...

Does this vB has a refresh function so when people
post stuff the page is automatically updated? :-)

Yes

Ive always wanted to be able to program but i cant.
Where do you people learn to program?

Shadrock, Soul Blade and Kaimetsu. Why don't you work together? You are all great at making stuff. And it woiuld be really cool to see Shaddy and SB work together. :D

Quote: "He's the programmer"

You said that I was the programmer, but I haven't yet said I would be. You've only asked me so far - I haven't said yes or no. Better would be:

"He might end up being the programmer"

I have other things that I really need to work on right now.

Soulblade and I have a different style of graphics, it wouldn't work out.

That's what I use...as long as you don't mind missing out on a few features you might never use then it's just fine.

LE is okay, but it doesn't have many of the filter options, and it doesn't have a multiple undo feature...(which gets quite annoying) So if I'm ever drawing anything, I just use Neopaint...

I will start learning C++ soon. Then mi and mi fwend maek game shall. (When I know it, wich is in a few years :()

...Hmm...Then you must not be seeing the one I sent...have you deleted the old one? The level generated world is about 25% detailed...most system NPCs are already added...we have many indoors...an excellent mining system...

Do you even have the tilesets? The bodies? I don't understand...we have already added the 3 tilesets...we have bodies, new body ganis...every single thing is new...

Can you please explain why you said that? Or tell me...you haven't seen anything new in the submission?

Did I send you the text file explaining mining/equiptment/items? They are kinda long...but they explain alot of things.

You have confused me greatly...

No our levels are great...I don't think Stefan is receiving the files...once I get my other comp back I'm gonna resubmit...

Hehe well...no I won't...I'm going to finish some stuff...

Just submit the latest version please

Well I can't do nothing anyway...my comp is busted...the one with Murasamune files at least.

=/

I would...sadly I can't...like I said in the post above, my comp is broken...

Fan burnt out...the chip was black when I opened the fan up...

Can't have my other comp on for more then 5 minutes...=/

lol this sounds like "a dog ate my homework" kind of excuse...=/

Yeah W-Dragoon could, but he told me there is a problem with the tilesets showing or something...He has the version I submitted to Stefan...argh this is a heopless situation.

umm, you didn't get the latest submission? I'm not totally up to date, but I can send you that one again... I don't think you've seen murasamune, because the tiles where included in that zip file...

now, I would just zip up my folder, but there's lotsa crap there, and double files, and it's all your fault soul

lol I keep things organized ;-)

i wish stefan would put Murasamune up
it looks good
i wanna play it

so do I, but when I downloaded the new update, I realized that we don't have the same sub folers and crap, and things got messed up. see, it's your fault

and, shad hates me, and I'd problebly work for soul blade

well stefan, I sent it. I hope you like it, check out the option system

sounds like a plan chief

i got half way through this post and fell asleep reading it..

Faheria
 

(Sir Spiderman)
Faheria will own, shadrock showed me some stuff, the levels were kinda impressive, and gfx wise, lol...suck my butt and slap me in the face, they were amazing.....there was lozza stuff, new weapons, an awesoem race, which i thought could be pets, and they grow, i will not release any details of any of these, because if shadrock wants you to see them, by christ...you'll see them and you'll be impressed...to hell with murasamune....providence, and any other server, that considers itself, to be good....faheria will own, and thats coming from me...i usually criticize everything, including my own stuff, trust me, money spent playing faheria will be money well spent

ahahahah. i just love toad's smilies

Re: Faheria
 

How much were you paid to say that?

Re: Re: Faheria
 

Re: Faheria
 

if i'm not satisfied, i'll hit you in teh hed

Faheria graphics are nice :cool:

:megaeek: woah! stefan approves it! then it must be great :)

put some screenshots! :grrr:

Faheria has nice graphics however, why did they make the same mistake on some levels the grass is to plainish. there is so much it should be nicer in like patches and such to make it look nicer